Breckinridge, John Bayne (1913-1979)

Section O, Lot 133 A graduate of the University of Kentucky, John Bayne Breckinridge attained the rank of colonel in World War II, worked with the Justice Department in Washington, and practiced law in Lexington before he entered the political arena. After two terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, he was twice elected attorney general (in 1959 and 1967) and then became the sixth Kentucky Breckinridge to sit in the U.S. Congress (1973-1979).